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Businessman John Brunner burned through at least $2 million and lost 7 percentage points against first-term Sen. McCaskill according to Republican-favored pollster Rasmussen Reports.

Sarah Steelman’s financial freeze continued and her inability to recognize the Violence Against Women Act won’t likely do much to assuage donors. She raised just $178,000 and was nabbed on camera saying she was unfamiliar with the legislation.

Rep. Todd Akin’s comments likening government-funded student loans to “stage 3 cancer of socialism” earned a derisive shout-out from the president, though GOP primary voters may see it differently.

Still, McCaskill needs her rivals to pile up many more of these incidents to put the brakes on her polling slide.

It’s widely accepted that Josh Mandel had a rocky start to his Senate bid, but April might be the month that proved early stumbles aren’t fatal.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Sen. John McCain both paraded into the state for the boyish-looking 33-year-old Marine veteran. A narrowing polling gap forced Sen. Sherrod Brown to go negative in his first TV spot.

Still, cringe-worthy headlines keep coming for the first-term state treasurer.

The latest involves charges that Mandel granted the largest raises in his office to friends and political aides.

With Brown being outspent by an estimate of 10-1, this race could become the archetype of whether campaigns really matter anymore or if money can overwhelm the system.

Her inability to say whether she cited her minority status to help land the Ivy League gig is “undermining Warren’s credibility and competence as a candidate,” WHDH-TV reporter Andy Hiller remarked in a recent segment.

Any white man once screwed by affirmative action shouild have their head examined if they vote for Professor Pocahontas, or any democrat for that matter.

Elizabeth 'Pocohantas' Warren is turning out to be a fine representative of everything that's wrong with 'Progressivism' today, more specifically, their sheer hypocrisy as they game a system they themselves corrupted.

One has to just love the interest free 'loans' from Harvard, compliments of student tuitions! That takes the cake! Sweet deal if you can get it.

Forget how she got tenure. I live immediately outside Boston in a city connected by the MBTA and I haven't seen her once. She's been out campaigned by Brown, and if it were any other year I might not notice. But coming off the heels of Martha Coakley, Warren should have been overly visible to correct the perception.

If American want to guaranteed more gridlock, more attacks against children, women, jobs, the middleclass, more financial turmoil, just keep on electing GOP candidates.

Isn't gridlock when the democrat Senate has refused to produce a budget in 3 years? The Obama Department of Education is attacking our children in part by writing regulations requiring home made lunches being pulled from students because they don't meet Mouchelle's definition of healthy. How is the GOP "attacking our children"? What rights do women lack that men have and should be added? How is the GOP "attacking the "middle class"? And isn't overspending $5T in 3 years resulting in a devalued dollar "financial turmoil"?

Sure Nebraska is a RED state and Kerrey certainly gives the appearance of a carpetbagger, but the real problem here are the GOP candidates. One is a consistent retread with Ben Nelson tire-tracks on his forehead and, the current favorite, inappropriately used his position as AG to enrich himself. Nebraskans are conservatives, but they dislike crooks even more - so Kerrey has a real chance. If either of the GOP candidates were useless GOP tools like most of Nebraska's elected representatives, Gov. Heineman, Senator Johanns or Rep. Terry, they would be more attractive to the people who mindlessly vote for the GOP. Character flaws such as those of Jon Bruning will cause committed GOPers to flee.

Nebraskans generally vote based on character, not advertising purchased by GOP slimebags that have none. Don't forget Obama won the Nebraska's second district in 2008 - and this from the ONLY state in 2004 where EVERY single county was won by G.W. Bush. So the state can be unpredictable. GoshKruse

Ahh, I see politico is quoting from the Boston Herald, only slightly less comical than the mooney tunes Washingtoon times rag.

The Warren -Brown race is already at 30 million, about 15 million each. It'll probably go over 50 million.

Scott Brown has made his bed with his votes for $2 billion a year in tax breaks for big oil companies. Not once, but twice with S.940 and S. 2204. And the "independent" has been indistinguishable from a republican rubber stamp 80% of the time. Although the "hold unemployment hostage for continuing the Bush tax cuts" was considered a sellout by the teabaggers; but bending over for grover is more important than the USA for Scottyboy.

I don't like giving more money to the oil companies that are making record mega profits, especially after paying $30 for a splash of gas to top off the tank. And please, don't mention the eXport pipeLine that wouldn't do anything more than a dime or so of difference.

I noticed his campaign stopped calling Elizabeth Warren a "limousine liberal", after Scotty was in a little accident in Dedham. On a Friday afternoon he was attending the opening day baseball game at Fenway Park, (you know, hard working blue collar man stuff, taking the day off to hang out in the luxury boxes, not elite at all), and after that his chauffeur got into a crash with a pizza delivery guy. It wasn't in his pickup truck, because he's too important to drive one of those, heck, he's too important to drive himself anywhere, that's why he has a chauffeur. But Scotty calls him a staffer, because blue collar guys have staffers, not chauffeurs.

Scotty Brownpants has become quite rich since going to Washington, another "author" with a few billionaires buying the vast majority of the "best selling" books. Bribery by any other name is just as corrupting (and enriching).

And on to the topic of the budget.

Hmm....without a budget you would have no deficits, if you play by republican definitions.

Instead of being a useful idiot for someone else why don't you realize there have been budgets passed?

An Appropriations Act is NOT a budget! The Senate has refused to put together a budget for over 3 years now -- a budget one of Congress' MAIN functions. Instead they just continue to increase the debt which is what under Obama's 3 1/2 watch -- $5.5T -- heck Bush only ran up $6T in 8 years. At this rate, Obama's congress will run up $12.5T in 8 years should be get back in. At that point say bye to SS, Medicaid, Medicare, etc. Say bye to it all, the country will be toast.

You've got no idea what a budget is, how many appropriations bills normally make up a budget, how many have been late in the past decade, or anything that isn't spoon fed to you.

Are you really that uninformed?????

I don't know what country you'tre thinking of, but in the USA, where Americans live, there most certainly have been budgets. Otherwise there could be no spending and no budget deficits.

A budget is comprised of (usually) 13 appropriations (spending) bills. ALL of which can be filibustered in the Senate. Or Vetoed if the President wants.

BTW President GW Bush immediately MORE THAN TRIPLED the deficit in his first budget from the previous year. If President Obama did that, the first deficit would have been over 5 Trillion. Also the largest yearly increase in the national debt was 2009, which included the Wall Street TARP handout, the responsibility of President Bush.

You guys are AMAZING in your belief system. Siridh, If an appropriations act isn't the final pieces of a budget then there wasn't a budget for 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2009, all of which were closed with a consolidated appropriations act and all supposed to be passed under the 43rd President.

I live in Palm Beach County Fl - Sen Neslon is in big trouble with the Seniors down here. The Republicans won't have their primary for another couple of months - so no one knows who's running agains him, but they were all pretty united in saying that would vote against Nelson. If Florida goes Republican - then Nelson is gone.

The "Congress hasn't passed a budget in 3 years" claim has been debunked and nothing more than spin. Instead of the normal budget procedures, the Budget Control Act was passed, it's an actual law instead of a resolution, and has cut spending.